HUGH AYNESWORTH – August 2, 1931 – December 23, 2023
As Hugh Aynesworth just passed away earlier this week, I thought I would revive one of the articles I did on him as part of the Real Disinformation Agents at Dealey Plaza. While Aynesworth, like myself, also wrote about psycho serial killer Ted Bundy, he tried to portray Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused killer of President Kennedy, in the same light, refusing to acknowledge Oswald’s many intelligence connections, as he himself had..
Aynesworth reported to the CIA’s Domestic Contact Agent in Dallas J. Walton Moore, who was the CIS controller for George deMohrenschildt and Col. Lawrence Orlov. Orlov accompanied deMohrenschildt to visit Oswald for the first time, after getting the go-ahead from Moore. While deMohrenschildt often had dinner with Moore, Orlov played racket ball with him every day, so they had a personal as well as professional relationship. And Moore and the CIA were closely monitoring events.
HUGH
AYNESWORTH
As a
local reporter for George Bannerman Dealey’s Dallas Morning News, Hugh
Aynesworth was all over the place during the assassination weekend. He was at
Dealey Plaza, the Tippit murder scene, the Texas Theater where the accused
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, the house in Irving where Oswald’s
wife lived, the rooming house where Oswald lived and the Dallas Police
Department where he was killed.[1]
It’s
important to mention Aynesworth’s background and his presence at so many crime
scenes because while it always seemed suspicious, and his CIA ties were
confirmed with the release of CIA records by the JFK Act.
As Jim
DiEugenio notes, “many more pages of documents have been released showing how
tightly bound Aynesworth was with the intelligence community. It has been
demonstrated that Aynesworth was – at the minimum – working with the Dallas
Police, Shaw's defense team, and the FBI. He was also an informant to the White
House, and had once applied for work with the CIA. As I have noted elsewhere, in
the annals of this case, I can think of no reporter who had such extensive
contacts with those trying to cover up the facts in the JFK case...”[2]
Rex
Bradford, the web master of Mary Ferrell’s extensive files on the case wrote, “Declassified documents show that Dallas reporter Hugh
Aynesworth was in contact with the Dallas CIA office and had on at least one
occasion ‘ offered his services to us.’
The files are chock full of Aynesworth informing to the FBI, particularly in
regard to the Garrison investigation….Also of note is a message Aynesworth sent
to…LBJ's White House, in which Aynesworth wrote that ‘My interest in informing
government officials of each step along the way is because of my intimate
knowledge of what Jim Garrison is planning.’” [3]
Most
incredible however, is the CIA report written on October 10, 1963 when J.
Walton Moore, the head of the Dallas CIA Domestic Contacts Division reported to
the Chief of the Contact Division on “the possibility of Hugh Grant Aynesworth
making a trip to Cuba.”[4]
One
month before the assassination J. Walton Moore - the same CIA agent who has
been meeting regularly with the accused assassin’s best friend George
DeMohrenschildt, is also meeting with Hugh Aynesworth about going to Cuba.
Moore’s
first mission with the OSS during Word War II was to China with Charles Ford,
who later became the CIA agent assigned to work with RFK at JMWAVE. Using an
Italian alias, Ford worked with John Rosselli, the mafia boss the CIA
previously recruited to kill Castro. In his interview with the Church
Committee, Ford said they were trying to overthrow, not kill Castro, but those
who have it in for RFK use Ford as a lynchpin to crucify Bobby, as we have seen
with Sy Hersh in the Dark Side of Camelot, Evan Thomas in Robert
Kennedy – His Life , and David Kaiser in The Road to Dallas ,
and Max Holland. But with the release of Ford’s records by the JFK Act, they
have all gone silent. [5]
However
there could be an association between Hugh Aynesworth, J. Walton Moore, Charles
Ford and David Atlee Phillips, especially in regards to the timing of Moore’s
memo and Phllips’ travels, not just as it relates to Cuba, but to what happened
at Dealey Plaza. This is especially so since J. Walton Moore – the CIA contact
agent to the accused assassin’s best friend, served in the same capacity with
Hugh Aynesworth about a trip to Cuba a month before the assassination. And the
day before Aynesworth met with Moore, David Phillips was at JMWAVE, the CIA’s
Miami, Florida base, where anti-Castro operations were planned and carried out.[6]
How did
these damning records get released? And if this was released, what’s in the
thousands of documents that are totally redacted or are still partially
withheld for reasons of national security? Many of these withheld records
include many pages of the files of Hugh Aynesworth, Priscilla Johnson and
Gordon McLendon.
As David
Talbot points out, “…some of these journalists did the CIA’s bidding: see, for
instance, a January 25, 1968 CIA memo on Hugh Aynesworth, who covered the JFK
assassination, first for the Dallas Morning News and then Newsweek .
Aynesworth – who at one time, according to the memo, ‘expressed some
interest…in possible employment with the Agency’ – was considered by the CIA to
be a solid ‘Warren Commission man on the assassination.’”[7]
And
indeed he was. He eagerly did the agencies bidding to squash the Garrison
investigation, and he doesn’t consider the Kennedy assassination among the
unsolved homicides in his 1994 book Murders Among Us: Unsolved Homicides,
Mysterious Deaths and Killers at Large .[8] But his
article, “The Strangest Story I Ever Covered,” details how he came to expose
the head of the local crime commission was himself a criminal who had crafted a
new identity to hide his past. So Aynesworth is capable of uncovering
conspiracies when he wants to. If he applied the same investigative skills to
the homicide at Dealey Plaza, perhaps he would have helped uncover the truth
instead of promoting the cover story and blaming the murder on the patsy.[9]
Joseph
Goulden was one of Hugh Aynesworth’s colleagues who also covered the events in
Dallas and also pushed the lone-nut myth. When rumors began to circulate that
Oswald was an FBI informant, and was even assigned an informant number,
Aynesworth, along with Houston reporter Lonnie Hudkins and Goulden, floated the
story that they had made up an informant number to make it seem real. The
Warren Commission held a closed door executive session to discuss it, and
former CIA director Allen Dulles explained that even if Oswald was an
informant, there would be no record of it, though there was a record of Jack
Ruby being such an FBI informant.[10]
Just as
there was a lot of friction between the FBI and the Dallas Police, there was
also friction between the FBI and the Secret Service and the FBI and the CIA.
So Goulden’s story actually took some of the heat off the CIA, especially in
regards to Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union and his trip to Mexico City,
both of which called unwanted attention to CIA operations they wanted to keep
secret.
It was
also a diversion that appeared to dissipate when Aynesworth and Goulden
acknowledged the story was bogus. So the idea of Oswald as intelligence
operative went south and the public image now became one of the deranged loser,
and lone nut assassin.
Today,
both Aynesworth and Goulden write for the Washington Times newspaper,
founded by Sun Myung Moon and owned by the Unification Church, who some suspect
acts as a front for the CIA.[11]
When
Priscilla Johnson McMillan testified before the House Select Committee on
Assassinations (HSCA), she said that in the course of researching Marina’s
story, she discovered who actually obtained and leaked Oswald’s “Historic
Diary” to the Dallas Morning News and Life magazine.[12]
Who was
it? Hugh Aynesworth.
NOTES
HUGH
AYNESWORTH
[1] Anyesworth on the weekend
of the assassination.
http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_38b31e0a-eb9b-5a22-9dc6-21674b814a2e.html
[2] DiEugenio, James. “Hugh Aynesworth Never Quits”. Also See: James
DiEugenio "These are Your Witnesses?"
[3] Bradford, Rex. On
Aynesworth. Bradford, Rex. Kennedy’s Ghost. http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Kennedys_Ghost
- fn_2
[4] Moore, J. Walton.
Aynesworth to Cuba. Offers Services to CIA: On October 10, 1963 J. Walton Moore
wrote to the Chief, (Domestic) Contact Division on the possibility of Hugh
Grant Aynesworth Making Trip To Cuba. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957
[5] 5) Moore, J. Walton and
Charles Ford, Ford Report Sept. 28, 1962 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55224&relPageId=43;
Ford & Bobby, - Sy Hersch in the Darkside of Camelot, Evan
Thomas Robert Kennedy – His Life (p. 178), and David Kaiser in The
Road to Dallas notes (47-48 p.446). Max Holland writes about “The Paper
Trail” in his Washington Decoded blog: http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/files/conspiracy_theories_keep_coming_but_under_scrutiny_the_plot_gets_thinner.pdf
[6] 6) Scott, PD. – Phillips at
JMWAVE. Oct. 63. PDS Deep Politics III – http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm - _ftn196 From
about October 1 to October 9 Phillips made a quick trip, authorized by the
Special Affairs Staff, to Washington and then Miami.[193] On October 1 the Mexico City CIA
station also sent a cable directing that a diplomatic pouch, sent on October 1
to Washington, should be held in the registry until picked up by “Michael C.
Choaden” (i.e. Phillips) presently TDY (temporary duty) HQS.”[194][195] The date October 1 catches
our eye, in as much as it is the date of the alleged Oswald-Kostikov intercept.
One is also struck by Phillips’ presence in the Miami JMWAVE station from
October 7-9. There are reports that Rosselli, who had good standing in the
JMWAVE station, met on two occasions in Miami in early October with Jack Ruby.[196]
[7] Talbot, David. Re;
Aynesworth. Talbot, David Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy
Years . (P. 445 Notes: 390) …Talbot Note: NARA record number
104-10170-10230. Offers Services to CIA: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957
[8] Aynesworth, Hugh. Murders
Among Us: Unsolved Homicides, Mysterious Deaths and Killers at Large (signet
& Onyx True Crime, 1994 w/Stephen Michaud) http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Murderers-Among-Us-Stephen-G-Michaud-Hugh-Aynesworth/9780451170576
[9] Aynesworth, Hugh.
“Strangest Story I Ever Covered”. http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/1983/08/01/The_Strangest_STORY_1_Ever_Covered.aspx
[10] Meagher, Sylvia. Accessories
After the Fact (p. 348) Oswald FBI Informant. Also see Spook
Journalist Goulden: http://www.dcdave.com/article1/081198.html
[11] Aynesworth and Goulden
at Washington Times .
Aynesworth
on Pedophile N.O. Priest - http://www.bishopaccountability.org/news3/1991_05_14_Aynesworth_SexTapes_Dino_Cinel_1.htm
Goulden
on Espionage for Washington Times : http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/24/espionage-28603365/
[12] Priscilla Johnson and Oswald’s Diary. PJM on Aynesworth got it from John Thorne, Esq. and Martin. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=95330&relPageId=27
Real
Disinformation Agents at Dealey Plaza – Posted by Jimmy DiEugenio in 2011
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